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April 2, 2017

Spoiled Science. How a seemingly innocent blog post led to serious doubts about Cornell’s famous food laboratory.

A groundbreaking study on the dangers of ‘microplastics’ may be unraveling.

Generating a Bunch Of “Internet Noise” Isn’t Going to Hide Your Browsing Habits. Rotating VPN and randomized non-persistent VDI (or similar) is about the only way. And stay off social networks.

The Woman Who Gave Us the Science of Normal Life. What a goddamn badass.

April 1, 2017

Silicon Valley Would Rather Cure Death Than Make Life Worth Living.

Mike Pence Refusing To Eat With Women Other Than His Wife Isn’t An Endearing Love Story.

Within days of Congress repealing online privacy protections, Verizon has announced new plans to install software on customers’ devices to track what apps customers have downloaded.

Here’s Why You Can Feel Like Jumping When You Look Down From a Height.

Many famous scientists have something in common—they didn’t work long hours. Real creative/difficult feats, you simply can’t work long at a time and be at all useful.

Bowling Undercover: the unique challenges of the CIA’s recreational activity leagues.

When a star scientist dies, outsiders often tackle mainstream questions in the field by leveraging new ideas that arise in other domains.

Fake news is too big and messy to solve with algorithms or editors — because the problem is…us.

The triumphalist feelings of “we are about to get them! Something big is about to happen!” is one of the mechanisms by which consumer society keeps people docile.

Smart TV hack embeds attack code into broadcast signal—no physical access required.

Killing Science and Culture Doesn’t Make the Nation Stronger.

Plunging price of renewable energy makes end of fossil fuels inevitable, says report.

How cloud computing has changed homework time—for parents. As assignments move out of the backpack and into the cloud, parental involvement suffers.

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